That was my first reaction as well. Perhaps the killer just had some personal vendetta against one or both of those men specifically.
Sounds harsh, but, guess we’ll have to wait and see.
As long as we’re speculating: Perhaps the vigilante is himself a sex-offender who killed both men to atone for his own sins or in a misdirected act of self-disgust, making him an interesting hero for those so eager to praise his actions.
A serial killer of serial rapists, interesting. The ultimate anti-hero, in a Punisher sort of way.
There is no room in a civilised society for vigilantes…no matter how much we are disgusted by the victims themselves.
The action that must be taken against pedophiles, rapists,murderers and any other crime, has to be an action that we agree upon as a society, and we all have to abide by that even when we oppose it…if we dont condemn this man we are actually promoting anarchy.
Plynck that quote is from the vigilante Rorschach from the graphic novel Watchmen which was a great read and I highly recommend it, comic fan or not. I actually had a GD thread about vigilantes recently, and I think this vigilante should be captured because he actually kills sex offenders and that’s wrong. I don’t think vigilantism is wrong, I just don’t think we’ve had the ideal vigilante yet.
Grant Morrison (a comic book writer) said it’s only a matter of time before costumed vigilantes showed up and I believe him I just hope they take their cue from Batman instead of the Punisher (like this guy did).
The killer can just decide that someone is a sex offender, kill that person, and say, “Hey, I thought he was one those scum!”
So, a good question arises here: What do you folks who value this killer’s “contribution” think about his mistakes?
ISTM that the vigilante’s idea of personal justice is revenge. That’s 100% on spot to my definition.
So, does a cop just do his job for “revenge”, Monty? I’m not defending this murdering scumbag but isn’t it possible that a vigilante would do vigilantism because in other cases it was the right thing to do?
Where the heck did you get that from my post, Kyle? A cop doing his job is following the law. A murderering vigilante is not following the law. Do you not see the difference?
BTW, I await a succint example of vigilante execution as the right thing to do.
No, vigilante execution is never okay but vigilante justice is okay under the right cicumstances and more effective than the police.
Just rehashing what has already been said, but Although I personally won’t miss the victims, they all did their time and we as a society, must maintain some degree of order. This person is likely very disturbed and could kill someone people do care about. Lol I bet the level III sex offenders in that city are not sleeping to well tonight.
I await a succint example–outside of the comic book world–where vigilante justice (aka, breaking the law to punish someone because you don’t like what they’re alleged to have done) is the right circumstance.
And those criminals/former criminals he’s killed probably had some family members who cared about them.
Mighty odd sense of humor you have.
And if, perchance, one of those offenders’ name happens to match yours and the killer decides to check the phone book for an up-to-date address and stumbles across yours…how funny is that?
Well since I live over 3,000 miles away I doubt that will happen, but yes I suppose it would be pretty funny.
Uh… Monty, I approve when someone does something bad and the vigilante apprehends them. What do you mean outside of the comic book world? I think your living in a comic book world where you think the cops are perfect and uncorrupted.I think a vigilante is needed (a non-murdering) one to wake the cops up because I think they have degenertaed into lazy bastards, most of them anyway.
Well, if there’s a copy-cat in your neck of the woods, then you’ll be quite amused. :rolleyes:
Monty read my last post again. I wouldn’t mind a non-murdering vigilante he would probably be better than the cops.
Well I just checked the sex offender registry, nope none of them even have a name remotely similar to mine, and most of the names have pictures next to them.
Ah, so we’re now at the heart of it. You don’t understand certain things vis a vis justice. There’s a concept in this country known as citizen’s arrest. That’s not vigilantism, it’s part of the law.
I mean real world examples.
I think you’re reading something somewhere outside of this thread and thinking it’s my post. Sadly, you’re not reading my actual posts.
Just for giggles, quote exactly where I said or implied that the police are perfect or incorrupt.
Ah, so you’re now admitting to being a bigot. You’re prejudiced against police officers.
Entertain me a tad, then. Let’s see some statistics that show that most of the police officers in the US have “degenerated into lazy bastards.”